Resources for Marketing Professionals: Page 4

Demand Generation

10 Guiding Principles of Sales Enablement, Inspired by 'Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad?'

Sales enablement can feel worse than untangling a giant knot of half-burned-out Christmas tree lights. Luckily, a series of MarketingProfs articles undertook that metaphorical untangling. The lessons now unwound from that effort shine brightly as guiding principles of sales enablement.

Career Development

The Most Important Skills for B2B Marketing Agency Teams

Executives at B2B marketing agencies say adaptability is the most important skill for their team members to have, according to research from LinkedIn.

Artificial Intelligence

How Small Businesses Are Using AI for Content Marketing

How are small businesses using artificial intelligence tools to create and improve their content? What types of content are they creating with AI? To find out, researchers surveyed 2,600 people who work for firms around the world.

Public Relations

How Corporate Comms Can Bridge the Gap With Business by Demonstrating Value

Demonstrating the link between investment in PR/corporate communications and business outcomes has always been hard. But proving value is getting easier. Here's what you need to know.

Measurement & Analytics

Three Data-Led Content Marketing Predictions for 2024

In the current environment, the pressure is on all marketers to produce results. Here are three predictions for how the coming year's standout content marketing performers will use data to their advantage.

Branding

Why You Need a Brand Style Guide (Even If you Think You Don't)

Maybe you think you can coast without brand guidelines because your employees or contractors or customers implicitly understand your brand. They don't. Or maybe you think it's too expensive to create a guide. The reality? You can't afford not to.

Social Media Marketing

Eight Steps to Ensure Brand Safety With Influencer Marketing

B2B influencer marketing offers a unique opportunity to build credibility and trust among prospects and customers. Embrace it—but do so with the utmost care for brand safety. Follow these eight steps.

Measurement & Analytics

Your First-Party Data Journey: Key Milestones for Maximizing Value

Laying the groundwork for first-party data success means understanding the variables that shape the journey and the key milestones along the way. And here they all are.

Marketing Content

How Repurposing Content Benefits Small Businesses

Small business owners say repurposing content delivers a wide range of important benefits, including saving time, boosting brand awareness, and increasing engagement, according to recent research from Adobe.

Communications

What PR and Comms Teams Do Best

Which tasks do PR and communications teams excel at? Which tasks are they struggling with most? To find out, researchers conducted a survey among 427 senior-level PR and comms professionals globally.

Measurement & Analytics

Surveys, Polls, Forms, and Progressive Profiling: How to Write Questions That Deliver Valuable Insights

It sounds simple, but writing a good question and collecting reliable answers is harder than it seems—whether you're writing full-fledged survey instruments or quick questions for polls or forms. So here are six sets of expert tips and best-practices.

Martech

How Salestech Can Embrace Customization at Scale

In an age when every digital interaction by potential buyers leaves a trace, salestech can help sellers and marketers harness a wealth of data. As a result, customization, at scale, is both possible and necessary.

Measurement & Analytics

How to Measure Your Content Marketing Success: Nine KPIs You Should Monitor

To discover whether your content marketing is successful and to what extent your content goals have been met, you need to identify your content marketing's key performance indicators. Monitor these nine KPIs.

Martech

Frustrated With Marketing Automation? How Feature Bloat Is Undermining Your Efficiency

In the race to build bigger and better solutions, martech vendors have ended up with so much "extra stuff" in their products that doing even basic work has become difficult. The result for marketers: frustration and wasted time. What can be done?

Martech

Five Powerful Benefits of Chatbots in B2B Marketing

When businesses use chatbots, they improve engagement, lead generation, and customer experience. But what, exactly, can chatbots do for marketers? Here are the top 5 benefits.

Martech

Customer Data Platform vs. Customer Engagement Platform: Differences and Use-cases

CDP and CEP objectives overlap, but their primary functions differ. This article highlights the roles of CEPs and CDPs, real-world use cases, and ways they enable customer-centric strategies.

Marketing Management

How CEOs Feel About CMOs

What grade do chief executive officers give chief marketing officers? Do CEOs think CMOs are bold or bureaucratic? To find out, researchers surveyed 150 CEOs at US companies that have 100+ employees.

Marketing Strategy

The Top Benefits and Challenges of Printed Marketing Materials

What goals do printed materials help businesses accomplish? What are the biggest issues businesses face when incorporating print into their marketing strategies? For answers, researchers surveyed 441 marketing and sales decision-makers.

Martech

The Saturated Marketing Tech Landscape: The Case for Consolidation

The explosive growth in martech solutions, once fueled by an era of easy capital, now faces a stark reality-check. What's next? And how can marketers decide what should go in their tech stack?

Advertising & Promotions

The Three Rules of Quality That Ensure DOOH Success

Much like the three unwavering rules of success in real estate—location, location, location—the world of digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising has its own triad of rules for success: quality, quality, quality. Just follow these three guiding principles.

B2B Marketing Resources

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